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The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms : Cleavages and Coalitions
Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of Comprehensive School Reform examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. Using a Rokkanian theoretical framework, the book argues that school politics can only be understood in light of the cleavages, or political di…
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- 9781009235211
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- xi, 332 p ; ill
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- 370.9481 POL
Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality : Challenging Swed…
This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colonial norms. As researchers located in Sweden, a nation often cited as one of the most gender-equal and LGBTQ-tolerant nations, the contributions investigate political processes, decolonial struggles, a…
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- 9783030474324
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- xiii, 316 p.
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- 320.9485 PLU E
YOUTH AND MEMORY IN EUROPE : defining the past, shaping the future
What kind of historical narratives are young people exposed to and what do they make of them? This volume brings together humanities and social sciences scholars in a study of youth and memory in different European regions. It explores the connections between the historical narratives expressed by young people and the broader, multifaceted historical narratives mediated by their cultures.
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- 6
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- 9783110733501
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- xv, 390p.
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- 940.072 YOU k
Gender and Migration : IMISCOE Short Reader
This open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical framework that incorporates both men and women, masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this reader provides…
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- 9783030919719
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- vi, 123 p.
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- 304.82 GEN A
The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary
This open access book explains the new type of political order that emerged in Hungary in 2010: a form of authoritarian capitalism with an anti-liberal political and social agenda. Eva Fodor analyzes an important part of this agenda that directly targets gender relations through a set of policies, political practice and discourse—what she calls “carefare.” This book reveals how carefare i…
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- 9783030853129
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- xi, 117 p.
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- 305.4209439 GEN E
Tracing the atom : nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia
This book brings together scholarship in history of Eastern Europe with inter-disciplinary inquiries drawing on social anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), and studies of literary and artistic productions. Conceptualizing this multidisciplinary volume, we foregrounded different modes and scales of tracing: from the analysis of nuclear imaginaries and memorializations to …
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- 9781003246893
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- x, 230 p. ill;
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- 333.79240947 TRA S
Practices of Citizenship in East Africa : Perspectives from Philosophical Pra…
Practices of Citizenship in East Africa uses insights from philosophical pragmatism to explore how to strengthen citizenship within developing countries. Using a bottom-up approach, the book investigates the various everyday practices in which citizenship habits are formed and reformulated. In particular, the book reflects on the challenges of implementing the ideals of transformative and criti…
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- 9780429279171
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- xi, 258 p.
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- 323.609678 PRA K
Cultural representations of gender vulnerability and resistance : a Mediterra…
This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and liter…
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- 1
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- 9783030955083
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- xvi; 233p;
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- 305.3 CUL P
Frontier Tibet : Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Frontier Tibet addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating…
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- 9789048544905
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- 555 p.
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- 951.5 FRO S
Politicizing Digital Space : Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy
"The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less …
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- 9781911534426
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- vi, 154 p.
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- 324.7 POL T
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